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Times Square bomber likely to face life sentence
The 30-year-old pleaded has guilty to 10 terror and weapons charges in connection with the May 1 failed attempt to blow up Times Square in New York.
"I want to plead guilty, and I'm going to plead guilty 100 times over because until the hour the US pulls its forces from Iraq and Afghanistan, and stops the drone strikes in Somalia and Yemen and in Pakistan, and stops the occupation of Muslim lands, and stops killing the Muslims... we will be attacking US, and I plead guilty to that," Shahzad, who called himself a "Muslim soldier", told the court in June 2010.
OneIndia News
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Story first published: Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 18:54 [IST]